The Cure for Good Intentions

A Doctor's Story

Sophie Harrison

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Fleet
08 November 2022

Medical profession

"'When I was twenty-eight I trained as a doctor. Initially everyone was interested. Amazing! people said, when I told them. What made you do that? I couldn't find a short answer. Sometimes I said, ""I had a revelation on a beach."" It was partly true'

The Cure for Good Intentions is about a life-changing decision. Sophie gave up her job as an editor at a prestigious literary magazine and put herself through medical school and hospital training before eventually becoming a GP. From peaceful office days spent writing tactful comments on manuscripts she entered a world that spoke an entirely different language. She was now inside scenes familiar from television and books - long corridors, busy wards, stern consultants, anxious patients - but what was her part in it all? Back in the community as a brand-new GP, the same question grew ever more pressing.

This is a book about how a doctor is made: it asks what a doctor does, and what a doctor is. What signifies a doctor: a caring-yet-brisk bedside manner? A mode of dress? A stethoscope? A firm way with a prescription pad? What is empathy, and what does it achieve? How do we deal with pain, our own and other people's? The Cure is an outsider's look at the inside of a profession that has never been so scrutinised, or so misunderstood."

By: Sophie Harrison
Imprint: Fleet
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 196mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 24mm
Weight: 200g
ISBN: 9780349144184
ISBN 10: 0349144184
Pages: 256
Publication Date: 08 November 2022
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Sophie Harrison studied English literature at university. She wrote technical manuals and TV listings before becoming an editorial assistant and later an editor for Granta Magazine. In 2003 she began retraining as a doctor. She has written about books for the Sunday Times, the New York Times, the London Review of Books and the Guardian. For several years she wrote a column about medicine for FT Weekend Magazine. She is married with two children and works as a GP.

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The Cure for Good Intentions

A Doctor's Story

Sophie Harrison

$26.99

Paperback

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